transvaluation
Inverting moral worth
Transvaluation is the reassessment and reversal of established values—declaring what was good to be bad, or what was despised to be worthy.
The term is most associated with Nietzsche, who argued that Christianity had transvalued ancient values, replacing aristocratic strength with meekness and pity.
More broadly, any radical reordering of a value system: The counterculture attempted a transvaluation of middle-class respectability.
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- will to powerDrive toward self-mastery, dominance
- master moralityValues exalting strength over weakness
- slave moralityEthics born from oppression
- genealogyStudy of family descent
beyond good and evil · Zarathustra · self-overcoming · death of God · free spirit · herd instinct · antichrist · Dionysian
Complete change of direction
- overturningCausing to flip
- upendingTurning upside down
- flippingTurning over rapidly
- negationDenial or cancellation
antithesis · opposition · contrary · subversion · iconoclasm · heresy · contrarian · undermining
Renewed evaluation of something
- reappraisalNew assessment of value
- reconsiderationRenewed evaluation of something
- reinterpretationNew understanding of something
- revisionAltering to improve
rethinking · reexamination · fresh perspective · critical analysis · reconceptualization · questioning assumptions
Profound biological restructuring
- transmutationComplete change of form
- conversionAct of changing states
- transfigurationExalted change in appearance
- reformationProcess of improving institutions
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- will to powerDrive toward self-mastery, dominance
- master moralityValues exalting strength over weakness
- slave moralityEthics born from oppression
genealogy · beyond good and evil · Zarathustra · self-overcoming · death of God · free spirit · herd instinct · antichrist · Dionysian · creative destruction
reversal
Complete change of direction
- overturningCausing to flip
- upendingTurning upside down
- flippingTurning over rapidly
negation · antithesis · opposition · contrary · subversion · iconoclasm · heresy · contrarian · undermining · destabilization
reassessment
Renewed evaluation of something
- reappraisalNew assessment of value
- reconsiderationRenewed evaluation of something
- reinterpretationNew understanding of something
revision · rethinking · reexamination · fresh perspective · critical analysis · reconceptualization · questioning assumptions
metamorphosis
Profound biological restructuring
- transmutationComplete change of form
- conversionAct of changing states
- transfigurationExalted change in appearance
transvaluationorthodoxy
Adherence to accepted beliefs
traditionalism · reformism · gradualism · modification · refinement
value, evaluate, evaluation, invaluable, devalue, undervalue, valuation, overvalue, devaluation